1.1 Louis-Mandé Daguerre, View of the Boulevard du Temple, c. 1839. Daguerreotype. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany.
1.1 Louis-Mandé Daguerre, View of the Boulevard du Temple, c. 1839. Daguerreotype. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany.
1.2 Abraham Bosse, Engraving Depicting Artist at Work, c. 1737.
1.3 Artist Unknown, Gilles-Louis Chrétien’s Physionotrace, c. 1786. Drawing. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
1.4 Artist Unknown, Gilbert Motier, Marquis de la Fayette, 1895; (below image) D’après le physionotrace de Quenedey. Aquatint, colored after physionotrace drawing. Marquis de Lafayette Print Collection. David Bishop Skillman Library. Lafayette College Library, Easton, Pennsylvania.
1.5 Artist Unknown, Bernie. Silhouette portrait, 1790s. Ink on paper mounted on 5 1/3 x 4 1/8 in. (13.5 x 10.6 cm) paper. Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Collection, New York.
1.6 Camera Obscura
1.7 Thomas Sandby, Windsor from the Goswells, 1770. Camera obscura drawing. The Royal Collection. © 2002 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1.8 Cornelius Varley, Artist Sketching with a Wollaston Camera Lucida, 1830. Engraving. Gernsheim Collection. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
1.9 William Henry Fox Talbot, Camera Lucida Drawing of the Terrace at the Villa Melzi, October 5, 1833. Drawing. National Media Museum, Bradford, England.
1.10 Shark Egg Case, 1840-45. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1.11 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Cardinal d’Amboise, 1826. Heliograph on pewter plate (reproduction of an engraving). Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
1.12 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826. Heliograph. Gernsheim Collection. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
1.13 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Landscape with Gothic Ruins and Figures, 1821. Brown ink and wash drawing. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
1.14 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Still Life (Interior of a Cabinet of Curiosities), 1837. Daguerreotype. Société Française de Photographie, Paris.
1.15 Johan Kaspar Lavater, Silhouette Machine, c. 1780. Engraving from Lavater’s Essays on Physiognomy. Gernsheim Collection. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
1.16 Hippolyte Bayard, Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840. Direct Paper Positive. Société Française de Photographie, Paris.
1.17 John Herschel. Untitled, 1842. Cyanotype. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
1.18 Artist Unknown, “The Stranger,” from Francis Wey, Comment le soleil est devenu peintre: histoire du dagguerréotype et de la photographie. Musée des Familles, June 1853. Wood engraving. Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1.19 William Henry Fox Talbot, Leaf, c. 1840. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1.20 William Henry Fox Talbot, Latticed Window Taken with the Camera Obscura, August 1835. Photogenic drawing negative, mounted on blackened paper. National Media Museum, Bradford, England.